Titanic II Will Sail Soon, Because If at First You Don't Succeed...

Here's a crazy idea: Don't board any ship, boat, or floating plank of wood if it bears the nameTitanic. Clear a wide berth. Go home. Go to bed. This is not the day you tempt fate, karmic retribution, and God's wrath on the open seas.

However, if you are in a fate-tempting kind of mood, there's good news. They're remaking theTitanic. Not the slog of a movie starring Kate Winslet and Young Leo, the actual ship. In real life. If this is some Darwinian test for humankind, we are failing.

Blue Star Line, an Australian shipping company owned by an Australian billionaire, said in 2012 it was buildingTitanicII,a nearly exact replica of theRMSTitanicthat would hold passengers and steam across the ocean. However, due to financial troubles, the plans were stalled. Now, Blue Star Line has announced that work on the luxury liner has resumed,MSNreports, and that it will be ready for its maiden voyage in 2022.

Titanic IIis being built in China as we speak (unlike the original, which was built in Belfast). It will hold 2,400 passengers and 900 crew members, and cost $500 million. It is the same length as the originalTitanicwith the same cabin layout and interior, and the same three passenger classes. Unlike the firstTitanic, which hit an iceberg and sank, killing 1,500 people, there will be modern navigation technology and safety procedures, as well as enough life boats to go around.

Titanic II's voyage starts exactly 110 years after theTitanicdisaster. It will make its way from Dubai to Southampton, England, where theTitanicboarded in 1912, then cross the Atlantic along the same path. Afterwards, assuming all goes well, it will circumnavigate the globe. Ticketing has not yet begun. If this at all sounds like something you'd at all like to do, we recommend you go watch Young Leo die inTitanicagain.

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